Time will tell, I suppose, but I think Clinton's beating the commander-in-chief drum is really shortsighted. I find it hard to believe that on that issue voters would choose her over McCain.

I think that maybe Obama should stop making any more references that imply that he is the front-runner here. Clinton has been really successful at painting herself (laughably in my view) as the scrappy challenger. She then gets people to react to the possibility of her being out of the race, and they go for her. Obama needs to take on a bit of that rhetoric, and force the Dems to wonder if they can really outdo McCain with her at the top of the ticket. If he starts to get people to really think about that - and about losing the historic opportunity that he represents not one iota less than Clinton - he may still be able to pull it out. This race has been brutal on front-runners - he should get out of that spotlight posthaste.

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(...)Julie Acevedo, a precinct captain for Obama in Austin, noticed that things were getting uglier on Friday, during the early voting, when she “saw some very angry women just stomping by us to go vote for Hillary. They cut us off when we tried to talk about Barack.

“I’m 46,” Ms. Acevedo, a fund-raiser for state politicians, said Tuesday night. “Maybe I missed it by a few years, but I don’t know why these women are so fueled by such hostility and think other women are misogynists if they don’t vote for Hillary. It’s insulting and disturbing.”(...)

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She sure can read a lot into a walk-by and a cut-off. Isn't this someone from the Obama campaign attacking Clinton voters by claiming to be insulted and victimized by their choice of the other candidate?

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And once she is done reducing feminism to a cartoon masquerading as a portrait, she continues on, blaming Hillary's supposed lack of whimsy for the reason women vote for Obama.

As a woman I know put it: "Hillary doesn't make it look like fun to be a woman. And her 'I-have-been-victimized' campaign is depressing."

A woman she knows named Doreen Mowd, no doubt--who, like Maureen Dowd, would certainly find a newfound appreciation for Hillary if only she'd make it "look like fun to be a woman," and wouldn't at all then accuse her instead of making women look silly, frivolous, and unserious. Yes, if only Hillary would ignore the constant sexism thrown at her by people who say things about her like she is "openly dependent on her husband to drag her over the finish line," if only she could see the fun in that, then Maureen and Doreen would, like, totally start loving her.

Fer sure.

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